Choreographer Alex Da Silva Arrested for Sexual Assault

by Jordan Yerman | April 5, 2009 at 08:27 am

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So You Think You Can Dance choreographer Alex Da Silva was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of sexual assault.

The salsa dancer is accused of raping four of his students, and is currently in police custody.

Rape accusations have dogged Da Silva for years; he appears in court on Tuesday, April 7th.

Detectives say the alleged assaults occurred between May 2003 and March 28. The female accusers told police Da Silva lured them to his homes in North Hollywood and Van Nuys, used a ruse to get them into his bedroom and raped them.

Da Silva had been accused in 2003, 2004 and 2005 of sexually assaulting three women, but for unknown reasons prosecutors declined to file charges, Eum said.

Then on March 28, a fourth woman accused Da Silva of luring her to his home, using a ruse to get her into his bedroom and raping her. Detectives went back to interview the previous accusers, found similar accusations of being lured to Da Silva's bedroom and sexually assaulted by him, and reopened their cases.